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 *ful as a colourist. He executed frescos in Rome, Urbino, Venice (1556), and other places, and made many designs for architectural decorations. Was also an engraver, and Bartsch enumerates ninety-three of his etchings. Works: Battle of Montemurlo, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Baptism of Christ, S. Francesco della Vigna, Venice, Madonna, S. Giobbo, ib.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xi. 317; Bartsch, xvi. 111.

FRANÇOIS, PIERRE JOSEPH CÉLESTIN, born at Namur, March 19, 1759, died in 1851. Flemish school; history painter, pupil of Andreas Lens; visited Italy in 1778-81 and 1789-92, and France and Germany repeatedly. Among his pupils were Navez, Decaisne, and Madou. Order of Leopold in 1845. Works: St. Germain blessing St. Geneviève (Church du Sablon), and Four Evangelists (Church des Minimes), Brussels; Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage, National Gallery, ib.; Sylla Tiburius, Portrait of Mme. Du Barry, Arenberg Gallery, ib.; Assumption, Ghent Academy; Physician consulted by two old Women, Haarlem Museum.—Immerzeel, i. 251; Kramm, ii. 511.

FRANCUCCI. See Imola.

FRANK, JULIUS, born in Munich in 1826. History painter, son of the glass painter, Michael Sigismund Frank (died 1847), pupil of Schraudolph. Works: St. George, Dünkelsbühl; The Good Shepherd, The Guardian Angel, Saalfelden; Mater Dolorosa, St. Sebastian, Cycle of wall paintings from sacred and profane history of Bavaria, National Museum, Munich; do. from New Testament, Philippine Congregation in Gostyn, Posen. Many easel pictures, chiefly Madonnas.—Müller, 182.

FRANQUE, JEAN PIERRE and JOSEPH, twin brothers, born at Buis (Drôme) in 1774. French school; history painters, pupils of David, enjoyed reputation under the empire, and often worked conjointly. Pierre painted pictures of large dimensions in the style of his master, and was employed at the Louvre and in making copies and restorations in Versailles Museum. Medal, 2d class, 1812; L. of Honour, 1836. Joseph went to Naples in 1813, where he became professor at the Academy. Works by Pierre: Battle of Zürich (1812, with Joseph, gold medal); Josabeth saving Joash from Fury of Athaliah (1817), Nîmes Museum; Conversion of St. Paul (1819), Dijon Museum; Angelica and Medor (1822), Besançon Museum; Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida (1822), Montauban Museum; Crossing the Rhine (1835); Siege of Lille (1836), Battle of Lens (1841, with Alaux), Versailles Museum. Works by Joseph: France in Anarchy appearing to Bonaparte on Banks of Nile (formerly in Luxembourg Museum).—Larousse, viii. 787.

FRANQUELIN, JEAN AUGUSTIN, born in Paris, Sept. 1, 1798, died there, Jan. 4, 1839. French school; history and genre painter, pupil of Regnault. Medal, 2d class, 1827. Works: Christ leaving the Temple (1819), Tours Cathedral; Death of Malvina (1819), Fontainebleau Palace; Daughter of Jairus (1822), Amiens Museum; Baptism of Christ (1824), Préfecture de la Seine, Paris; Conquest of Brisach, 1703, Versailles Museum; Young Woman with her Child and a Dog, Grenoble Museum; Mother at Cradle of sick Child, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Bragella, the Sailor's Wife (after Byron), Italian Woman with Sick Child praying before Madonna, Leipsic Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, ii. 586.

FRARI, IL. See Bianchi, Francesco.

FRASER, ALEXANDER, born in Edinburgh, April 7, 1786, died at Hornsey, Feb. 15, 1865. Genre painter, studied at Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh; went in 1813 to London, where he became assistant to Wilkie, and painted the details and still-life in his pictures for twenty years. His own works, mostly relating to Scottish life, show